2451[September 1788] (Adams Papers)
Rain. Pass’d the evening with Stacey. Finished Hume and Blackstone. Little &c. I went over the...
245220th. (Adams Papers)
Snow’d almost all day. White set out early in the morning for Haverhill; his sister is to be...
24536th. (Adams Papers)
Visited young Mr. Chaumont in the morning, who arrived a few days since from Philadelphia. I went...
245413th. (Adams Papers)
No reciting, this morning: was employ’d all day in mathematical Studies, of which I begin to grow...
245510th. (Adams Papers)
The weather cleared up this morning; but the wind was so high, and the snow so deep; that Mr....
245610th. (Adams Papers)
In the forenoon I went, and sat about an hour with Mr. King. Mr. Gerry was sitting at the grand...
24573d. (Adams Papers)
We had a Lecture this morning upon Electricity; we received two small shocks, which however, gave...
24584th. (Adams Papers)
Old Mr. Grand, and Dr. Bancroft. In the evening Mr. Chaumont and Mr. Franklin. Dr. Edward...
245925th. (Adams Papers)
Thayer and Charles returned from Scituate this afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Hilliard came to pass the...
246019. (Adams Papers)
Meeting to hear Mr. Wibird. W. Cranch. And rews .
246123d. (Adams Papers)
After breakfast I went to see Coll. Monroe, and Mr. Hardy, of the Virginia delegation. Call’d...
24629. (Adams Papers)
Parson Wibird dined at Mr. C’s. Folks came home.
2463[10th.] (Adams Papers)
Tuesday 5. A. M. arrived at Calais, in the afternoon took Post, and went as far as Boulogne, 4....
246426th. (Adams Papers)
This forenoon while I was at the office I received a billet from Mr. Dalton, with an invitation...
246523. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Russell’s and returned at Night.
246616th. (Adams Papers)
In the forenoon I attended at Mr. Carey’s meeting. The man that appeared in the pulpit I...
246713. (Adams Papers)
Returned to Braintree in the forenoon.
24686th. (Adams Papers)
A Parson Allen preach’d this day for Mr. Carey. I went to hear him in the forenoon. His Sermon...
24693. (Adams Papers)
Gibbon 5th. vol. 4th. gone which I much regret.
247020th. Thursday. (Adams Papers)
We met this evening at Thompson’s. Pickman came; but rather late in the evening. Young Sawyer was...
2471John Quincy Adams to John Adams, 2 April 1786 (Adams Papers)
After having suffered so long an interval of Time to pass, since I wrote you last, it is...
2472Thursday Novr. 20th. (Adams Papers)
Dined at Mr. Rogers’s.
247310th. (Adams Papers)
From the divers interruptions which we met with in the course of the day, we did but little at...
247428. (Adams Papers)
Meeting Forenoon. Mr. Marsh. L. White.
247516th. (Adams Papers)
Dined at Mr. Dana’s, and pass’d part of the evening with the Judge and his Lady at Mr. Gerry’s....
2476John Quincy Adams to Elizabeth Cranch, 7 April 1786 (Adams Papers)
My things, are yet pretty much in Confusion, and I do not expect to get well settled till the...
2477Tuesday Novr. 25th. (Adams Papers)
Went to the Covent Garden Theatre, and saw the Castle of Andalusia, with the Devil upon two...
24786th. (Adams Papers)
This being the last day before the close of the vacation, I was part of the day employ’d in...
24793d. (Adams Papers)
Continued in the first volume of Blackstone. In the course of my reading this day; I came across...
248020th. (Adams Papers)
Snow’d all day. We were rather tired after our expedition. I have been idle; and do not by any...
24816th. (Adams Papers)
Went down in the Evening and was a couple of hours at Mr. White’s. They were to have had Company,...
248210th. (Adams Papers)
Very few of the students have arrived. Not more than 15 of our Class have yet appeared. The tea...
248328th. (Adams Papers)
Writing all the forenoon. In the afternoon I went out, with my brother Tom, upon a shooting...
248410th. (Adams Papers)
Leonard White came up in the morning, and proposed to me, to make one of a small slaying party to...
248517th. (Adams Papers)
At home all the forenoon, reading Tom Jones, one of the best novels in the language. The scenes...
24868th. (Adams Papers)
I arose in the morning quite refresh’d, and immediately after breakfast went and took my station...
248721st. (Adams Papers)
Hazy weather again all the forenoon. I went and pass’d an hour with my friend White before...
248812th. (Adams Papers)
Training day for the alarm list. From 16 to 60 years the inhabitants of this Common-wealth, are...
248926th. (Adams Papers)
I was greatly disappointed to find, that neither of my Cousins nor my brother had any Letters for...
249018th. (Adams Papers)
Rain’d a great part of the Day. Miss Hiller is only fourteen, her person comes very near to my...
249126th. (Adams Papers)
Paris afternoon. Froullé, books upon astronomy. Went to see Mr. West and Mr. Waring but neither...
249215th. (Adams Papers)
All day at home. My Uncle, was applied to last Saturday by a man, to do a little jobb for him, as...
24938th. (Adams Papers)
Read through the remainder of the Dialogues, which Reid says, “prove by unanswerable arguments,...
249422d. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Shaw went over to Weymouth. Mr. Cranch returned from Boston, and Mr. Standfast Smith came...
249511th. (Adams Papers)
Dined with Mr. Adams at the Marquis de la Fayette’s. There was not much American Company: M: le...
24965th. (Adams Papers)
After passing all the day, at pretty Close Study, I went and spent the Evening at Mr. White’s....
249730th. (Adams Papers)
Mr. Adams dined at the Spanish Ambassador’s, Count d’Aranda, an old man 70 years of age, who...
249812th. (Adams Papers)
Charles and myself went over to Weymouth, and dined at Doctor Tufts’s. We were overtaken by a...
249916th. (Adams Papers)
Went with Mrs. A into Paris in the afternoon. Got a book of Pissot, and Brindley’s Terence, la...
25002d. (Adams Papers)
I have been too busily employ’d, to have much to say. Study, does not afford, a rich source for...